New Delhi: The new offering on OTT is a much-talked-about Swedish miniseries, The Helicopter Heist or The helicopter robbery. The web series consists of eight episodes and is inspired by a real-life story of robbers who stole a helicopter from the base in Norrtälje and $150 million dollars from a cash service building in southern Stockholm.
The series is based on the novel of the same name. Based on true events, the series explores how two friends pulled off such a heist. Let’s delve into more details about the miniseries and the true incident that inspired the show.
The Helicopter Heist OTT release date
The Swedish crime drama has premiered on Netflix globally. Set in 2009, the show is based on a real-life incident where two robbers steal a helicopter, land on the country’s safest cash depot, steal millions and disappear while police watch them.
The Helicopter Heist plot
The web series The Helicopter Heist explores robbery, and its intricate planning and execution. The most surprising angle of the heist is that police just watched the robbers do their job and flew and not a single shot was fired at them. It also offers an emotional side of the people’s complicated lives who were involved in the incident.
The Helicopter Heist cast
The Helicopter Heist stars Dejan Milacic, Mahmut Suvakci, Ardalan Esmail, Erik Svedberg-Zelman, Iskra Kostic, Vic Carmen Sonne, Win Elwencrona, and Johanna Hedberg, among others.
What happened in the real-life incident?
On September 23, 2009, A Bell 206 helicopter was stolen from Roslagens helicopter base in Norrtälje at 5:15 am. It landed on the G4S cash service building in southern Stockholm. Masked robbers, clad in all-black, smashed the glass room with sledgehammers and entered the building with ladders. They placed explosives across the facility, leaving security personnel to hide fearing that the building would collapse and hence, gave full access to the building to robbers. They used buzzsaws to break locks on cash cages and filled their bags with millions of dollars, approximately $150 million. The entire heist was completed in a mere 20 minutes.
Police arrived at the scene while robbers were still in action but were not able to enter the building neither police helicopters were of any help as submachine guns and bombs were placed to keep them away.
Later, the helicopter was found in a forest in the north of Stockholm. CCTV footage gave police a headway into the case. The main accused was Goran Bojovic, who previously worked for Serbia’s secret police and eventually other accused were also arrested. In total, 10 accused were arrested. It is said that a large chunk of stolen cash is yet to be found.
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